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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By the end of the second chapter, what does the author think about human contemplation of God?
(a) If humans think hard enough, they can understand God.
(b) God guides human thought along the right course.
(c) Human beings should not try to accurately describe God.
(d) It is the highest human endeavor.

2. What does the author say combats the idea of God's mindless cruelty?
(a) Memories of lost loved ones.
(b) Scripture.
(c) The promise of heaven.
(d) Christ.

3. For whom has the author had no difficulty praying?
(a) His children.
(b) Strangers.
(c) Those who have died other than his wife.
(d) His wife.

4. In the second chapter, what person does the author come to realize he had little confidence in?
(a) The author's children.
(b) B. R.
(c) H.
(d) The author's brother.

5. How does God seem to respond to the author's agony?
(a) With a sense of nearness to Lewis.
(b) With the gift of comfort.
(c) With silence.
(d) With a feeling that Lewis' wife continued to live.

Short Answer Questions

1. What aspect of an afterlife does the author say differs completely from this life?

2. Where is Jesus's agony on the cross recorded?

3. Of what disease did H. die?

4. What sense does the first chapter end with?

5. Whom does Lewis' sons remind him of?

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